NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

This event, organized in partnership with Yale Economic Growth Center and the Gates Foundation, will present new research on gender, labor markets, structural transformation, and policy intervention in India, Mexico, and Morocco, bringing in additional insights from a set of studies across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The session will address the following questions: how do gender gaps in labor market outcomes evolve with structural transformation as labor moves out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services? How can policy decisions avoid the downward-sloping section of the historic inverse-U relationship between female labor force participation and economic growth, and enable growth that matches talent to opportunity regardless of gender? What is the differential impact on women and men of digital transformation? How does migration out of agriculture into urban areas affect gendered outcomes in labor markets? What is the impact of a minimum wage policy intervention on the gender wage gap?